From the stats, even though people wanted fresh water for their daily life, they have avoided rainiest spots in the world for settlement. Some places which have bucked the trend are given below, If i have missed some cities pls let me know. The criteria is population of above 0.3 million and rainfall of above 2000 mm.

In July alone Kollur and Sangameshwar has got 2500 mm each. Meanwhile Cherrapunji is having the worst monsoon rains in decades. It has minus 1965 mm rainfall from its normal. The trend is to continue in August too.

The axis of the monsoon trough has returned to its normal position, an India Meteorological Department (IMD) update said on Thursday evening. But it is not expected to stay fixed to this alignment for long and could keep moving north and south of the mean for the next two to three days.

PACIFIC STORM

Monsoon performance too could get impacted in the process, which has lately run into a tropical storm in the South China Sea, remnant of an earlier typhoon of the same name in the Philippine Sea.

And, the overall rain deficit inched up to five per cent on Thursday, unable to march the high July normal.

This is despite widespread rainfall being reported from the east, parts of northwest and the west coast. But not over central and peninsular India, and it made a lot of difference.

An IMD update said that the 24 hours ending Thursday morning saw widespread rainfall has being reported from Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Sikkim, Konkan and Goa.

CLOUD PRESENCE

It was fairly widespread over Himachal Pradesh, Bihar, the Northeastern States, interior Maharashtra and coastal Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.

Scattered rains were reported from Jammu and Kashmir, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka and Kerala while it was isolated over Punjab, Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Gangetic West Bengal, Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Rayalaseema and Tamil Nadu.

WEATHER WARNING

The cloud formations were whipped up in the north by a western disturbance parked over north Pakistan and an offshoot upper air cyclonic circulation over Punjab and neighbourhood.

The monsoon trough running across northwest-southwest of the plains as also a persisting upper air cyclonic circulation over northwest Bay of Bengal too chipped in. And a feeble off shore trough continued to run down from Gujarat coast to Kerala coast.

A weather warning valid for the next two days said that heavy to very heavy rainfall would break out at a few places over Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim.

A short-term outlook until Sunday said that widespread rain or thundershowers would occur over west coast and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Fairly widespread rain or thundershowers would break out over northwest India, Bihar, sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Sikkim, the Northeastern States and Lakshadweep. Scattered rain or thundershowers are likely over the remaining parts of the country except extreme peninsular India .

A weather warning valid for the next two days and issued by the India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Wednesday tends to take the heavy rain belt towards east and north-west India and along the west coast.

This is because there has been an upward shift in the alignment of the monsoon trough and resultant ‘dry-docking' of its eastern end even as its western end retained itself along the normal.

DEFICIT RISES

Persisting rain deficits in south peninsular India (3 per cent) and east and north-east India (15 per cent) have brought up the cumulative figure as a whole for the country by one per cent more to four per cent on Wednesday.

The eastern end of the monsoon trough was nestling in the north-eastern States on Wednesday evening but the IMD said that it would keep moving further north over the next two days.

A weather system has to develop over the Bay of Bengal in order to coax back the trough and get the eastern end to dip into the Bay of Bengal waters.

WEATHER FEATURES

Upper air cyclonic circulations persisted over Saurashtra and Kutch, central Pakistan and adjoining northwest Rajasthan and Haryana and neighbourhood.

A parent western disturbance hung over Jammu and Kashmir and adjoining north Pakistan while a feeble offshore trough looked down from Gujarat coast to Kerala coast.

These systems brought widespread rainfall over the west coast, Kerala, Lakshadweep and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands during the 24 hours ending Wednesday morning.

The rains were fairly widespread over Vidarbha, north coastal Andhra Pradesh and Rayalaseema while being scattered over the western Himalayan region, the Northeastern States, sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Sikkim, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, interior Karnataka, west Uttar Pradesh and Delhi.

CONVECTIVE CLOUDS

A Kalpana-1 satellite cloud imagery on Wednesday afternoon showed convective clouds rising over parts of Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand, west Rajasthan, Haryana and adjoining Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, central and south Bay of Bengal, Andaman Sea and east Arabian Sea.

The monsoon may remain in weak phase with reduced rainfall activity over central and adjoining northwest India during next two days, an India Meteorological Department (IMD) outlook said on Sunday.

But this phase would witness a calibrated increase in the rainfall activity over south peninsular India, the North-eastern States and along the foothills of the Himalayas.

IDENTIFIED PATTERN

This is a pattern identified with a ‘weak phase' of the monsoon, however brief, wherein rains scale up over parts of the southeast coast (including Tamil Nadu) and along the foothills of the Himalayas.

In fact, the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts sees the possibility of a cyclonic circulation spinning up close to the Tamil Nadu coast and entering land.

It would later go on to set up a trough that straddles the corridor between Vidarbha and north Tamil Nadu.

Looking to grow further west, it would presumably set up some piloting rains ahead of a likely surge of flows across the peninsula from mid-week this week.

SATELLITE IMAGERY

In fact, the IMD has forecast the possibility of scattered rain or thundershowers breaking out over south peninsular India on Monday before consolidating thereafter.

Forecast for this week (24-Jul to 30-Jul)::
Monsoon may remain in weak phase with reduced rainfall activity over central and adjoining
northwest India during next 24 hours. However, rainfall activity would increase over south
peninsular India, northeastern states and along foot hills of Himalayas.

As i was wondering whether Kollur which is having a amazing run of rainfall 4452 mm (from 01.06.2011 to 21.07.2011 - 51 days) from others places in 2011 is an one off event, whether there are other places which has got Extraordinary Rainfall (10000 mms in a year) previously. I have excluded Cherrapunji and Mawsynarm from the list since its routine for them to achieve 10000 mm every year . Mostly the data were only available upto the year 1970. Kindly provide me other instances where it has crossed 10000 mm/year

1. KOTTIGEHARA (KARNATAKA)

1961 - 10933 mm (This includes an mind boggling 3046 mm rainfall in 11 days starting from July 1st to July 12. During July, 1961 Kottigehra got 5370 mm rainfall in one month)

As you can see the graphs of heavy rainfall places from various zones of the country.

North - Dharamshala

South - Agumbe

East - Cherrapunji & Passighat

West - Mahabelshwar

Cherrapunji gets its maximum
rains from June to August, beyond that the rainfall decreases
drastically. When comparing it to the rains of Southern giant Agumbe
the pattern is similar Cherrapunji beats Agumbe by 500 mm in June and by
350 mm in July. The tables are turned in August where Agumbe gets
whopping 750 mm more rainfall than Cherrapunji.

SWM Rainfall in mm as on 20.07.2011 (50 days) (min 2750 mm)

Kollur (Karnataka) - 4332

Dajipur (Maharashtra) - 3780

Sangameshwar (Maharashtra) - 3557

Agumbe (Karnataka) - 3523

Gaganbawada (Maharashtra) - 3519

Kitwade (Maharashtra) - 3213

Cherrapunji (Meghlaya) - 3020

Kadra (Karnataka) - 3000

Soliwade (Maharashtra) - 2855

Quepem (Goa) - 2805

Mahabaleshwar (Maharashtra) - 2768

Siddapura (Karnataka) - 2750

Considering this Kollur which also has similar rainfall of
Agumbe. The difference between Kollur and Cherrapunji is 1300 mm even
if both get their average rainfall in August. The lead is going to
extend further only.

Even Gaganbawada and Sangameshwar which get good rains in August will have good chance to beat Cherrapunji this year in the SWM.

Total rainfall Agumbe got this season (01.06.2011 to 19.07.2011 - 49 days) is 3428 mm and is now second behind Kollur, Karnataka which has got 4221 mm rainfall in the race to be the wettest place this monsoon in India. Gaganbawada, Maharashtra till yesterday has got 3320 mm, lets see the rainfall today it has to get 11 cm to overthrow Agumbe from second position.

After a dry Sunday, heavy rains lashed Mumbai commencing pre dawn.It was observed that the winds suddenly changed from a Southerly direction after 3.0 a.m. Sunday to Northerly. Indicates a abrupt development of a "thin" line of low pressure vortex off the Konkan coast from South Gujarat to South Konkan coast.

This typhoon would be the most significant weather feature during the course of the week, flows feeding into which could also trigger upstream activity towards far west in the Bay of Bengal.

As if on cue, India Meteorological Department (IMD) has said on Tuesday evening that the Bay of Bengal has thrown up a fresh upper air cyclonic circulation.

It has happened side by side an ongoing surge in monsoon flows across the west coast into peninsular India and further into the Bay.

‘LOW' BREWING

This system could go on to set up a ‘feeble' low-pressure area, which, according to the US National Centres for Environmental Prediction, could push in a rain head into north peninsular India later during the week.

The axis of the seasonal monsoon trough over land has kept oscillating to north and south from its normal position during the 24 hours ending Tuesday morning, deciding the fortunes of the monsoon.

But the monsoon has been active over Gujarat region, among the few Met subdivisions with major rain deficits, during this period.

The most important thing about Kollur (Karnataka) rainfall is that it has got above 1cm rainfall from the day monsoon set in. It has got above 10 cm rainfall for 13 days and between 7-10 cm rainfall for 11 days.

The stars of Maharashtra, Gaganbawada is nearing Cherrapunji which has got (-1335 mm) rainfall less than the average. While Sangameshwar has gone above Agumbe which has got (-399 mm) rainfall less than the average and Kadra is also in striking distance of overtaking Agumbe, which has lost the Cherrapunji of South title to Hulikal, which is also located in Karnataka.

Top 5 SWM from 01.06.11 to 12.07.2011 (43 days)

Kollur, Karnataka - 3424 mm

Cherrapunji, Meghyala - 2607 mm

Gaganbawada, Maharashtra - 2447 mm

Sangameshwar, Maharashtra - 2322 mm

Agumbe, Karnataka - 2302 mm

Kadra, Karnataka - 2220 mm

The lead between Kollur and Cherrapunji is extending day by day. Its now at 817 mm.

India Meteorological Department (IMD) has declared that the southwest monsoon managed to cover the entire country by Saturday, at least a week ahead of schedule.

In a fortuitous coincidence, latest update from the Climate Prediction Centre (CPC) of the US National Weather Services seemed to suggest the re-emergence of a monsoon-friendly La Nina in the east equatorial Pacific later this year.

Over the last couple of weeks, forecasts created by the Climate Forecast System of the National Centres for Environmental Prediction have begun to indicate the re-emergence of La Nina during northern hemisphere autumn, the CPC said.

Combined with the recent weakening of the positive ocean anomalies and the lingering La Niña state of the atmosphere, the possibility of a return to La Nina has increased over the past month.

However, it added the caveat that most other models and all multi-model forecasts have been predicting ‘neutral' (conditions), suggesting neither La Nina nor El Nino, during the season ahead.

Out of more than 20 such forecasts monitored by the International Research Institute for Climate and Society at Columbia University, only six plumped for the ‘La Nina' option, it said.

Back home, the monsoon ran ahead of time to cover the entire mass after a ‘pulse' from the Bay of Bengal ended the ‘break monsoon' phase that had manifested during the first week of July.

Break monsoon is the term referred to the inevitable pause that the monsoon allows itself after a hectic run that, in the instant case, lasted almost the whole of June.

This pulse had also triggered the formation of a low-pressure area over land in east India. It travelled west for a day, before losing most of the sting over northwest Madhya Pradesh.

But it had also helped consolidate the easterly monsoon flows by coercing the all-important land-based monsoon trough across northwest-to-southeast India to revert to its normal position to sustain the flows.

Not seeing a rosy picture today (Monday) for the predicted strengthening of the off-shore trough (west coast). Possibilities of this west coast trough gaining strength was seen earlier. But,due to the total fizzling out of the upper air trough, off shore trough will remain weak on Monday. Hence, the Mumbai forecasr for Monday stands changed to sunny with few showers. Rain amounts 10 mms. Next forecast tonite.The scenario in the Bay remains hopeful for a low by tomorrow.

The South-West monsoon is set for a revival of sorts after an intervening ‘break' phase, with an upper air cyclonic circulation springing up over north-west Bay of Bengal on Monday.

The circulation has helped the eastern end of the all-important land-based monsoon trough across northwest-to-southeast India to revert back to its normal position.

NORTHERN END

The northern end is expected to follow suit within the next two days bringing the rain cover to extend over west-central India and the rest of northwest India, an India Meteorological Department (IMD) update said on Monday.

This sets the stage for the revival of rain activity, with Kalpana-1 satellite pictures revealing the presence of convective(rain-bearing) clouds over east Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, the North-Eastern States, Bay of Bengal, Andaman Sea and east-central and south-east Arabian Sea.

OFFSHORE TROUGH

A conventional offshore trough has fallen into place along the west coast from Maharashtra coast to Kerala coast.

This is just as well, since monsoon easterlies would need a system to interact with and bring needed rains into the region including West Rajasthan and north Gujarat where rains have been either deficient or scanty until now.

A short-term forecast by IMD valid until Thursday said that fairly widespread rain or thundershowers would occur over western Himalayan region, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Lakshadweep, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and along the west coast.

WEATHER WARNING

Scattered rain or thundershowers would occur over remaining parts of the country outside Rajasthan and Gujarat.

An extended forecast valid until Saturday spoke about the possibility of further increase in rainfall activity over central and northwest India.

But in a weather warning for the next two days, the IMD said that there are two remnant rain-driving circulations from the heavy session still hanging over the region over northwest Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand and adjoining Bihar respectively.

SOUTHWEST COAST

Isolated heavy rainfall would also occur over coastal Karnataka, Kerala and the North-Eastern States during this period as the revival of monsoon reverberates along the southwest coast as also in the northeast.

Meanwhile during the day yesterday (Sunday), fairly widespread rainfall was reported from Jharkhand, West Bengal, Sikkim, north interior Karnataka and the Northeastern States